Archive for the 'The Media' Category


Jagger/Arcade Fire-The Last Time

This was supposed to be bad. A tired rock star giving the middle finger to bandmates who can’t tour without him. But from the very beginning of the show, Jagger exuded a charisma and confidence that was incredibly endearing, even in the skits. Instead of looking desperate, he took the whole show up a notch. [...]

Making Rumours

What if I told you this book was full of tech talk, read like a manual and was filled with arcane details…would you read it anyway? I DID! Ken Caillat was smart enough to get a cowriter, unlike Carole King. And he’s not afraid to sling shit, some of the stories about Lindsey Buckingham will [...]

Sales

1. Jack White "Blunderbuss" Sales this week: 137,554 Most people just don’t care. Despite saturation marketing, Jack White is a niche player. His only hope is that his fans spread the word, the media’s not cutting it. This is no reflection upon Mr. White or his music. It’s just illustrating that SNL and print media [...]

Seeing The Future

Dan Lyons wrote a brilliant analysis of the Facebook’s purchase of Instagram in "Newsweek". Bottom line, the web is dead. We live in a mobile world. And Facebook didn’t have a decent app. Rather than try and convince everybody to go back to the past, to keep surfing on full-sized computers, Zuckerberg bought Instagram, which [...]